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Langley Roundup: News for June 19th, 2026

The Langley Union June 19, 2026

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Happy Friday, friends! It is a sunny one in Langley today, with the mercury climbing toward 27 degrees and not a drop of rain in sight. Good weekend weather coming.

The Township has unveiled its full Summer Nights lineup for July through September: free Thursday concerts at Willoughby Community Park, dive-in movies, foam parties, and family fun nights at parks across the Township. Langley City Council, meanwhile, has consolidated advance voting at Timms Community Centre for October's municipal election, with mail-in and curbside options for residents who cannot easily make it out. Bard in the Valley is rolling out a layered summer of Shakespeare, improv, and youth theatre, kicking off next week at Township 7 Vineyard.

Further east, Abbotsford gets a shared e-bike fleet of its own on Monday. We have also got the story of Bahare, an Iranian-trained pharmacist who turned her credential limbo into community work at Archway Community Services.

On the federal beat, Ottawa is racing today to pass Bill C-22, a sweeping surveillance bill that civil liberty groups and major tech companies say cannot be salvaged. In sports, Canada thumped Qatar 6-0 at the World Cup last night, though a serious injury to Ismaël Koné tempered the celebration. Locally, Vancouver Giants forward Mathis Preston is waiting on his NHL Draft call out of Buffalo next Friday.

Free Summer Nights Events Return Across the Township

The Township of Langley is bringing back its Summer Nights series this year.

The free and low-cost events run from July through September at venues across the Township.

Thursday evenings will feature free outdoor concerts at the Willoughby Community Park Amphitheatre starting at 6:30 p.m., paired with the Langley Community Farmer's Market from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Family Fun Nights at Philip Jackman Park, Josette Dandurand Northeast Latimer Park, and James Hill Park will include foam parties, inflatables, face painting, and food trucks, with the season finale capped by an outdoor movie under the stars.

The Aldergrove Community Centre will also host themed waterpark events, including Dive-In Movie Nights, Family Nights, Youth Nights, and adults-only Sip 'n Dip evenings, with advance registration opening seven days before each event.

Date	Event
Thursday, July 2 at 7pm	Sip ‘n Dip at The Outdoor Experience
Saturday, July 4 at 6pm	Outdoor Movie Night at Willoughby Stadium at Langley Events Centre featuring Lilo & Stitch (live action)
Thursday, July 9 at 6:30pm	Dueling Pianos at the Willoughby Community Park Amphitheatre
Thursday, July 9 at 7pm	Dive-In Movie Night at The Outdoor Experience featuring Zootopia 2
Wednesday, July 15 at 7pm	Family Night at The Outdoor Experience
Thursday, July 16 at 6:30pm	Greg Neufeld at the Willoughby Community Park Amphitheatre
Thursday, July 16 at 7pm	Sip ‘n Dip at The Outdoor Experience
Thursday, July 23 at 6:30pm	Morgan Griffiths at the Willoughby Community Park Amphitheatre
Thursday, July 23 at 7pm	Youth Night at The Outdoor Experience
Friday, July 24 at 5:30pm	Family Fun Night and Water Fight at Philip Jackman Park
Thursday, July 30 at 6:30pm	Jada Leroux and Ranj Singh at the Willoughby Community Park Amphitheatre
Thursday, July 30 at 7pm	Sip ‘n Dip at The Outdoor Experience
Saturday, August 2 at 3pm	Matinee Movie at the arena at Langley Events Centre featuring Space Jam
Thursday, August 6 at 6:30pm	Annika Catharina at the Willoughby Community Park Amphitheatre
Thursday, August 6 at 7pm	Dive-In Movie Night at The Outdoor Experience featuring Hoppers
Thursday, August 13 at 6:30pm	North Country Gentlemen at the Willoughby Community Park Amphitheatre
Thursday, August 13 at 7pm	Sip ‘n Dip at The Outdoor Experience
Wednesday, August 19 at 7pm	Family Night at The Outdoor Experience
Thursday, August 20 at 6:30pm	John Welsh and Los Valientes at the Willoughby Community Park
Amphitheatre
Thursday, August 20 at 7pm	Youth Night at The Outdoor Experience
Friday, August 21 at 5:30pm	Family Fun Night at Josette Dandurand Northeast Latimer Park
Sunday, August 23 at 6pm	Outdoor Movie Night at the stadium at McLeod Athletic Park
Thursday, August 27 at 6:30pm	Stephen Scaccia at the Willoughby Community Park Amphitheatre
Thursday, August 27 at 7pm	Sip ‘n Dip at The Outdoor Experience
Thursday, September 3 at 6:30pm	Coolrunnings Band at the Willoughby Community Park Amphitheatre
Thursday, September 3 at 6:30pm	Dive-In Movie Night at The Outdoor Experience featuring Goat
Sunday, September 6 at 5:30pm	Family Fun Night with Movie at James Hill Park featuring Minecraft
Thursday, September 10 at 6:30pm	Sip ‘n Dip at The Outdoor Experience

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Langley City Adjusts Advance Voting Rules Ahead of October Municipal Election

Langley City Council has given initial approval to several election bylaw changes ahead of the October 17 municipal vote.

Advance voting will now run only at Timms Community Centre across four days, after staff found turnout was lower at the Langley Senior Resources Centre and that voting there disrupted the centre's programming.

The City is also dropping a special voting opportunity at Evergreen Timbers, which drew just eight voters in 2022. Staff say they will work with long-term care providers to make sure residents know about mail-in ballots and curbside voting on advance voting days and on election day.

Council also cleaned up a discrepancy in the election sign bylaw. The maximum size, previously listed as four feet by four feet or 0.91 metres by 0.91 metres, has been corrected to 1.2 metres by 1.2 metres so the imperial and metric measurements actually match.

Bard in the Valley Rolls Out Shakespeare, Improv, and Junior Theatre This Summer

Bard in the Valley is layering extra events around its main Shakespeare production this summer.

The company's adaptation of "Henry IV" runs from June 25 to July 12 at Township 7 Vineyard & Winery, followed by by-donation showings at Langley City's Douglas Park from July 18 to 26.

Free "Bard & Banter" pre-show discussions with the director and producer take place at Township 7 on June 25 and July 3, while a Spontaneous Shakespeare improv night follows on July 2.

The group's youth theatre campers will stage "Something Rotten Jr." at Douglas Park on July 16 and 17.

The summer wraps with "Persephone," a new musical written and directed by Langley's Lauren Trotzuk, running by donation from July 21 to 23.

Tickets and full details are available at bardinthevalley.com.

Shared e-bikes coming to six Abbotsford sites next week

Abbotsford is getting a shared e-bike fleet next week, giving Fraser Valley residents a new low-effort way to leave the car at home for short trips.

BCAA's Evolve E-Bike Share launches June 23 in partnership with Wiebe Properties, which is funding and hosting the program. Twenty bikes will be parked at six designated zones across the city, available to anyone 24/7 through the Evo app.

The locations are:

College Park (1520 McCallum Rd.),
Bevan Grove Apartments (33465 Bevan Ave.),
Central Park Village (3050 Gladwin Rd.),
Clearbrook Plaza (2655 Clearbrook Rd.),
Montecito Place (32123 George Ferguson Way), and
Marshall and Horizon (33379 Marshall Rd.).

Rates are $1 to unlock plus 20 cents per minute through the end of September, then climb to $1.25 and 35 cents after that. Residents of Wiebe Properties get a discount and pay 10 cents per minute.

E-bikes have become one of the easier ways to get more people biking, especially those who find regular cycling too physically demanding or who need to cover the longer distances typical of Fraser Valley street grids. Riders still pedal, so the activity counts as exercise, but the electric assist takes the edge off hills, headwinds, and grocery loads.

Research consistently links regular cycling to better heart health, improved sleep, and lower rates of anxiety and depression. Even short, low-intensity rides build the kind of daily movement that public health agencies say is missing from most adults' lives, and time spent outside tends to compound the mental health benefits the more often people do it.

Programs like Evolve also chip away at one of the quieter costs of car-dependent design.

Every short trip swapped for a bike is one less local errand spent circling for parking or burning fuel to travel two kilometres at a time, and for a city pushing toward a more connected, walkable core, even a modest fleet of 20 bikes is a useful piece of infrastructure.

More information is available at evo.ca/evolve.

From Pharmacist to Community Builder: An Immigrant Volunteer's Journey Through Archway

Bahare arrived in Canada as an experienced pharmacist from Iran, only to discover that the lengthy and demanding relicensing process would put her career on hold indefinitely. Her story is one shared by countless internationally trained professionals whose credentials are effectively erased at the border.

Looking for purpose during a period of transition, she found Archway Community Services in Abbotsford, where she began volunteering with the Career Paths for Skilled Immigrants program. Her role involved sourcing job leads for newcomers navigating an often overwhelming Canadian labour market.

The experience opened her eyes to how frequently skilled immigrants are overlooked because of their name, their accent, or the fact that their education happened outside Canada. "Being a pharmacist and working at a place like Archway both share the same moral core," she reflected. "They require you to care deeply about people."

Bahare has since been hired as a facilitator with Archway's Community Connections program, where she will lead workshops for immigrants and refugees. She also continues to volunteer with Career Paths on her own time.

Carney government rushes surveillance bill to vote despite dire warnings

The federal government is racing to pass Bill C-22, a sweeping surveillance law that would force tech companies to break encryption and hand over user data.

The bill, also called the Lawful Access Act, cleared debate this week after the government cut off discussion of its most contentious sections.

It would require telecoms and messaging apps to store user metadata for one year, expand data sharing with foreign governments including the United States, and let the Minister of Public Safety order companies to build backdoors into their products.

The federal government is racing to pass Bill C-22, a sweeping surveillance law that would force tech companies to break encryption and hand over user data.

The bill, also called the Lawful Access Act, cleared debate this week after the government cut off discussion of its most contentious sections.

Signal, Apple, Google, and several VPN providers have said they may pull services from Canada rather than comply.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab call the bill unsalvageable, warning that surveillance backdoors create vulnerabilities that hackers and hostile governments inevitably exploit.

The 2024 Salt Typhoon breach, which targeted a similar law enforcement access system in the United States, is exactly the kind of fallout privacy advocates fear.

Ottawa wants the bill passed by June 19, an arbitrary deadline critics say leaves no room for proper study of a law that touches the privacy of millions.

OpenMedia is running a campaign at openmedia.org/StopC22 to help Canadians contact their MPs before the vote.

Canada Crushes Qatar 6-0 in World Cup, but Koné Injury Casts a Shadow

Canada delivered a commanding 6-0 victory over Qatar in FIFA World Cup action Thursday night, electrifying packed crowds in downtown Vancouver and at the PNE Fan Zone.

The celebration was tempered by a serious injury to Ismaël Koné, who crumpled to the turf with what head coach Jesse Marsch immediately recognized as something severe. Teammates say the injury has given the squad extra motivation heading into the next round.

The match was one of the biggest moments yet for Canadian soccer on home soil, with the tournament drawing massive public energy to the host cities.

Vancouver Giants Forward Mathis Preston Awaits NHL Draft Call

Vancouver Giants forward Mathis Preston, a Penticton product who joined the Langley-based club via a midseason WHL trade, is ranked 32nd among North American skaters heading into the 2026 NHL Draft on June 26 in Buffalo.

Preston posted 44 points in 46 games split between Spokane and Vancouver this season, despite missing nearly two months with a lower-body injury. He also turned heads at the U18 World Championship, finishing second in scoring among Canadian players.

A former competitive BMX racer, the 18-year-old winger proved his conditioning at the NHL Combine with top-10 finishes in seven fitness events. Giants assistant coach Wacey Rabbit called his shot "underrated" and his puck tenacity "elite."

Preston has said he plans to return to the WHL next season to chase a championship, whenever his name is called.

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